Investigation of the magnetic phases of the charge transfer compound CuTCNQ

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The charge transfer compound CuTCNQ (TCNQ = 7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane) exhibits switching between two electrical resistance states when subject to an electric field. It is known that the the material has two structural phases (I and II) each with very different electrical conductivities and magnetic properties. While the electrical properties of CuTCNQ has been investigated by many, the magnetic properties have attracted very little interest even though phase II is ferromagnetic below 10K while phase I is essentially diamagnetic. We propose to use muon spin rotation/relaxation to investigate the magnetic properties of both phases of CuTCNQ. The ferromagnetic transition in CuTCNQ-II will be studied in zero field and in longitudinal fields. CuTCNQ-I will be investigated in zero field to look for evidence of antiferromagnetically coupled radical spins bound to the TCNQ anions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.83550036
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/83550036
Provenance
Creator Miss Isabel Braddock; Miss Aqsa Arshad; Dr Marek Szablewski; Dr Ian Terry; Dr Adam Berlie
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-06T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-08T09:30:00Z